zfs discuss - Apr 2010 - ZFS Rollback From ZFS Send

Can I rollback a snapshot that I did a zfs send on?

ie: zfs send testpool/web1 at april6 > /backups/web1 at april6_2010

Thanks
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:53:23AM -0400, Tony MacDoodle
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> Can I rollback a snapshot that I did a zfs send on?
> 
> ie: zfs send testpool/web1 at april6 > /backups/web1 at april6_2010
That you did a zfs send does not prevent you from rolling back to a
previous snapshot.  Similarly for zfs recv -- that you went from one
snapshot to another by zfs receiving a send does not stop you from
rolling back to an earlier snapshot.

You do need to have an earlier snapshot to rollback to, if you want to
rollback.

Also, if you are using zfs send for backups, or for replication, and you
rollback the primary dataset, then you''ll need to update your backups/
replicas accordingly.

Nico
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